DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Abstract

© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2015. A search for Higgs boson pair production pp → hh is performed with 19.5 fb -1 of proton-proton collision data at √s = 8TeV, which were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The decay products of each Higgs boson are reconstructed as a highmomentum bb system with either a pair of small-radius jets or a single large-radius jet, the latter exploiting jet substructure techniques and associated b-tagged track-jets. No evidence for resonant or non-resonant Higgs boson pair production is observed. The data are interpreted in the context of the Randall-Sundrum model with a warped extra dimension as well as the two-Higgs-doublet model. An upper limit on the cross-section for pp → G* KK → hh → bbbb of 3.2 (2.3) fb is set for aKaluza-Klein graviton G* KK mass of 1.0 (1.5)TeV, at the 95 % confidence level. The search for non-resonant Standard Model hh production sets an observed 95 % confidence level upper limit on the production cross-section σ(pp → hh → bbbb) of 202 fb, compared to a Standard Model prediction of σ(pp → hh → bbbb) = 3.6 ± 0.5fb.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Aix-Marseille Univ. and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille (France). et al.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Contributing Org.:
ATLAS Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1222761
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1222748; OSTI ID: 1223291; OSTI ID: 1223292; OSTI ID: 1409414
Report Number(s):
AC03-76SF00515
Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC02-05CH11231; SC00112704; AC03-76SF00515; AC02-98CH10886; AC02-76CH00016; SC0012704; AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1434-6044
Publisher:
Springer
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

Citation Formats

Aad, G. Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3628-x.
Aad, G. Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector. United States. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3628-x
Aad, G. Wed . "Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector". United States. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3628-x. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1222761.
@article{osti_1222761,
title = {Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bb¯bb¯ final state from pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS detector},
author = {Aad, G.},
abstractNote = {© CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration 2015. A search for Higgs boson pair production pp → hh is performed with 19.5 fb -1 of proton-proton collision data at √s = 8TeV, which were recorded by the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. The decay products of each Higgs boson are reconstructed as a highmomentum bb system with either a pair of small-radius jets or a single large-radius jet, the latter exploiting jet substructure techniques and associated b-tagged track-jets. No evidence for resonant or non-resonant Higgs boson pair production is observed. The data are interpreted in the context of the Randall-Sundrum model with a warped extra dimension as well as the two-Higgs-doublet model. An upper limit on the cross-section for pp → G* KK → hh → bbbb of 3.2 (2.3) fb is set for aKaluza-Klein graviton G* KK mass of 1.0 (1.5)TeV, at the 95 % confidence level. The search for non-resonant Standard Model hh production sets an observed 95 % confidence level upper limit on the production cross-section σ(pp → hh → bbbb) of 202 fb, compared to a Standard Model prediction of σ(pp → hh → bbbb) = 3.6 ± 0.5fb.},
doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3628-x},
journal = {European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields},
number = 9,
volume = 75,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 80 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Figures / Tables:

Fig. 1 Fig. 1: Acceptance times reconstruction and selection efficiency as a function of graviton mass for the bulk RS model, for the resolved and boosted analyses. The shapes of the curves are driven by the separation between the $b$-quarks from the Higgs boson decays and the impact on jet clustering. Themore » requirements are defined in Sects. 4.2 and 5.2« less

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Anomalous couplings in double Higgs production
journal, August 2012

  • Contino, Roberto; Ghezzi, Margherita; Moretti, Mauro
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2012)154

Scale-invariant resonance tagging in multijet events and new physics in Higgs pair production
journal, July 2013

  • Gouzevitch, Maxime; Oliveira, Alexandra; Rojo, Juan
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2013, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2013)148

A positive-weight next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo for heavy flavour hadroproduction
journal, September 2007


The anti- k t jet clustering algorithm
journal, April 2008


MadGraph 5: going beyond
journal, June 2011

  • Alwall, Johan; Herquet, Michel; Maltoni, Fabio
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)128

Improved luminosity determination in pp collisions at $\sqrt {s} = 7\ \mathrm{TeV}$ using the ATLAS detector at the LHC
journal, August 2013


A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX
journal, June 2010

  • Alioli, Simone; Nason, Paolo; Oleari, Carlo
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2010, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)043

Enhanced di-Higgs production through light colored scalars
journal, November 2012


Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
journal, September 2012


Inclusive jet production, parton distributions, and the search for new physics
journal, October 2003


Measurement of the muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector using 2011 and 2012 LHC proton–proton collision data
journal, November 2014


Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
journal, September 2012


Higgs production and decay: analytic results at next-to-leading order QCD
journal, December 2005


NNLO corrections to top-pair production at hadron colliders: the all-fermionic scattering channels
journal, December 2012

  • Czakon, Michal; Mitov, Alexander
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2012, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)054

Searching for the Kaluza-Klein graviton in bulk RS models
journal, September 2007


SusHi: A program for the calculation of Higgs production in gluon fusion and bottom-quark annihilation in the Standard Model and the MSSM
journal, June 2013

  • Harlander, Robert V.; Liebler, Stefan; Mantler, Hendrik
  • Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 184, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2013.02.006

Standard model Higgs boson pair production in the ( b b ¯ $$ b\overline{b} $$ )( b b ¯ $$ b\overline{b} $$ ) final state
journal, August 2014

  • de Lima, Danilo Enoque Ferreira; Papaefstathiou, Andreas; Spannowsky, Michael
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2014)030

Neutral Higgs-boson pair production at hadron colliders: QCD corrections
journal, November 1998


The ATLAS Simulation Infrastructure
journal, September 2010


Jet trimming
journal, February 2010

  • Krohn, David; Thaler, Jesse; Wang, Lian-Tao
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2010, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)084

Matching NLO QCD computations with parton shower simulations: the POWHEG method
journal, November 2007


Percent-Level-Precision Physics at the Tevatron: Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to q q ¯ t t ¯ + X
journal, September 2012


Total Top-Quark Pair-Production Cross Section at Hadron Colliders Through O ( α S 4 )
journal, June 2013


Composite Higgs boson pair production at the LHC
journal, June 2011


Theory and phenomenology of two-Higgs-doublet models
journal, July 2012


Jet energy measurement with the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{\mathrm{s}}=7\ \mathrm{TeV}$
journal, March 2013


The catchment area of jets
journal, April 2008


A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1
journal, June 2008

  • Sjöstrand, Torbjörn; Mrenna, Stephen; Skands, Peter
  • Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 178, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2008.01.036

New parton distributions for collider physics
journal, October 2010


Higgs Boson Pair Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
journal, November 2013


A New Method for Combining NLO QCD with Shower Monte Carlo Algorithms
journal, November 2004


Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders
journal, May 2002


Parton distributions for the LHC
journal, July 2009


Pair production of neutral Higgs particles in gluon-gluon collisions
journal, November 1996


Higgs pair production at the LHC with NLO and parton-shower effects
journal, May 2014


On the generalized harmonic polylogarithms of one complex variable
journal, June 2011


Jet energy measurement and its systematic uncertainty in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s}=7$$ s = 7  TeV with the ATLAS detector
journal, January 2015


Parton distributions with LHC data
journal, February 2013


Warped gravitons at the CERN LHC and beyond
journal, August 2007


Top++: A program for the calculation of the top-pair cross-section at hadron colliders
journal, November 2014


On the Higgs boson pair production at the LHC
journal, October 2013


Higgs boson production in bottom quark fusion at next-to-next-to-leading order
journal, July 2003


Pileup subtraction using jet areas
journal, January 2008


Erratum to: Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics
journal, July 2013


Presentation of search results: the CL s technique
journal, September 2002


Asymptotic formulae for likelihood-based tests of new physics
journal, February 2011


Top-pair production at hadron colliders with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic soft-gluon resummation
journal, April 2012


2HDMC – two-Higgs-doublet model calculator
journal, January 2010

  • Eriksson, David; Rathsman, Johan; Stål, Oscar
  • Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 181, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.09.011

NNLO corrections to top pair production at hadron colliders: the quark-gluon reaction
journal, January 2013


Measurements of Higgs boson production and couplings in diboson final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
journal, October 2013


Vector boson plus one jet production in POWHEG
journal, January 2011

  • Alioli, Simone; Nason, Paolo; Oleari, Carlo
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)095

Two-loop light fermion contribution to Higgs production and decays
journal, August 2004


PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual
journal, May 2006


2HDMC — two-Higgs-doublet model calculator
journal, April 2010

  • Eriksson, David; Rathsman, Johan; Stål, Oscar
  • Computer Physics Communications, Vol. 181, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.12.016

Higgs production and decay: analytic results at next-to-leading order QCD
journal, December 2005


Higgs radiation off bottom quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC
journal, October 2004


Vector boson plus one jet production in POWHEG
text, January 2010


Composite Higgs Boson Pair Production at the LHC
text, January 2010


Enhanced di-Higgs Production through Light Colored Scalars
text, January 2012


Higgs Boson Production with Bottom Quarks at Hadron Colliders
text, January 2004


Works referencing / citing this record:

Higgs boson pair productions in the Georgi-Machacek model at the LHC
journal, March 2017

  • Chang, Jung; Chen, Chuan-Ren; Chiang, Cheng-Wei
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep03(2017)137

Constraints on the trilinear Higgs self coupling from precision observables
journal, April 2017

  • Degrassi, G.; Fedele, M.; Giardino, P. P.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2017)155

Constraints on the trilinear Higgs coupling from vector boson fusion and associated Higgs production at the LHC
journal, July 2017

  • Bizoń, Wojciech; Gorbahn, Martin; Haisch, Ulrich
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2017, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2017)083

Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
journal, August 2018

  • Sirunyan, A. M.; Tumasyan, A.; Adam, W.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2018, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2018)152

Differential Higgs boson pair production at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
journal, September 2016

  • de Florian, Daniel; Grazzini, Massimiliano; Hanga, Catalin
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2016)151

Indirect probes of the trilinear Higgs coupling: gg → h and h → γγ
journal, October 2016


Full top quark mass dependence in Higgs boson pair production at NLO
journal, October 2016

  • Borowka, S.; Greiner, N.; Heinrich, G.
  • Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol. 2016, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2016)107

NLO corrections to double Higgs boson production in the Higgs singlet model
journal, November 2015


Search for two Higgs bosons in final states containing two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV
journal, September 2016


Double Higgs production at the 14 TeV LHC and a 100 TeV p p collider
journal, November 2017


Analytical Method for Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Double-Higgs Production
journal, October 2018


Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks
journal, July 2016


B-meson anomalies and Higgs physics in flavored $$U(1)'$$ U ( 1 ) ′ model
journal, April 2018


Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
text, January 2018

  • Sirunyan, Albert M.; Tumasyan, Armen; Adam, Wolfgang
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-04449

Search for Higgs boson pair production in the bbττ final state in proton-proton collisions at √(s)=8  TeV
text, January 2017


Differential Higgs boson pair production at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
text, January 2016

  • De Florian, Daniel; Grazzini, Massimiliano; Hanga, Catalin
  • Springer
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-129862

Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks
text, January 2016


Search for two Higgs bosons in final states containing two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV
text, January 2016

  • Collaboration, Cms; Canelli, F.; Chiochia, V.
  • American Physical Society
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-130240

Search for two Higgs bosons in final states containing two photons and two bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at 8 TeV
text, January 2016


Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
text, January 2018


Search for heavy resonances decaying to two Higgs bosons in final states containing four b quarks
text, January 2016


Full top quark mass dependence in Higgs boson pair production at NLO
text, January 2016


Search for resonant pair production of Higgs bosons decaying to bottom quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
text, January 2018

  • Sirunyan, Albert M.; Tumasyan, Armen; Adam, Wolfgang
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
  • DOI: 10.3204/pubdb-2018-02414

Discovering Uncolored Naturalness in Exotic Higgs Decays
text, January 2015


Differential Higgs Boson Pair Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
text, January 2016